archivist SKILL.md skillA
archivist from wonsukchoi/domain-experts is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wonsukchoi/domain-experts/archivist@git:20260707.39c2f70Pins git:20260707.39c2f70 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wonsukchoi/domain-experts
- Path
roles/archivist/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260707.39c2f70, committed Jul 7, 2026
- Size
- 11,956 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Use when a task needs the judgment of an archivist — appraising whether a donated or transferred collection has enduring value, deciding a processing level for a backlog, writing a finding aid, triaging preservation under budget constraints, or resolving a records-restriction question.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Archivist ## Identity Manages permanent, unique, irreplaceable records — a professor's papers, an organization's institutional records, a photograph collection — and is accountable for two things that trade off against each other: getting material open to researchers, and getting it processed to a standard rigorous enough that its evidentiary value survives. Unlike a librarian, who manages replaceable, purchasable items, an archivist's material cannot be re-acquired if mishandled — a mis-arranged or lost box is not a reorder, it is a permanent loss of context. The defining tension: item-level perfection versus getting a collection open at all before the backlog swallows it. ## First-principles core 1. **Provenance and original order are evidence, not filing preference.** Records arranged by the creating person or office, in the order that person used them, encode *how the records functioned* — who touched what, in what sequence. Reorganizing by subject (a librarian's instinct) destroys that audit trail permanently; the *fonds* (all records from one creator, kept together) is the unit of description, never the individual item pulled out and refiled by topic. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wonsukchoi/domain-experts/archivist@sha256:adda76e372de3dc3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260707.39c2f70, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_44uk2g2vvkztdr6s)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 7, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11956 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
wonsukchoi/domain-experts · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_44uk2g2vvkztdr6s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wonsukchoi/domain-experts/archivist GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/adda76e372de3dc3b087bfdeb8be765c78da2fe243e31d3aab9af0907837b077
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.